BitCar , a Singapore-based blockchain startup, has announced that AlphaBit , a fund launched last year, has purchased a “substantial number of BitCar tokens.” BitCar is currently conducting a token sale to fund the development of its blockchain platform, which intends to facilitate th...

The CEO of Nasdaq has revealed that it is looking into how it can offer digital currency futures that are different to Cboe and CME offerings. Speaking to CNBC , Adena Friedman, the chief of the stock exchange, said that Nasdaq was ‘investigating the idea of a cryptocurrency futures.’...

A young startup from Asia called Telcoin is looking to partner with telco operators around the world to facilitate the adoption of its cryptocurrency for payments and other financial services. Partnerships have already been signed proof-of-concept agreements with Etisalat from the Uni...

Litecoin, which is an altcoin that has long been marketed as the “silver to bitcoin’s gold”, was not the most difficult thing for creator Charlie Lee to launch. He simply took the Bitcoin Core codebase, changed a few parameters (such as the block time and mining algorithm), and then p...

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Image credit: Singapore Skyline, Pixabay The software prototypes of three different models for decentralized interbank payment and settlements have been successfully developed by the blockchain consortium led by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the city-state’s central bank ...

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has joined hands with the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge to help strengthen Singapore’s talent pool in the fintech industry and advance fintech and blockchain research and development. At the annual Singapore Fintech Festival event, Ravi Menon, ma...

A new research paper from a pseudonymous author puts the valuation of a single bitcoin at $5.8 million. The paper makes the case that bitcoin is the best form of money in existence today and should be valued as the dominant world currency. Throughout the paper, points are made around ...